Virginia Fathers Call for an Investigation of Judge Larry Willis and the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts. A group of concerned fathers is calling for an investigation into the cases brought before the judge to assess the lawfulness of his rulings. They are also encouraging other fathers to speak out.

According to the group, Judge Larry D. Willis commonly orders fathers appearing in the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts to pay more than 65 percent of their income in child support, a violation of both state and federal law. The judge is also accused of setting excessively high appeal bonds, further preventing fathers from seeking fair treatment under the law.

Efforts are being led by Fred Smith, founder of Chesapeake Fathers for Justice and Fair Treatment.

“Judge Larry Willis rapes and robs fathers of their civil rights, forcing working fathers to live in poverty,” said Smith. “For years, he has hidden behind the shield of judicial immunity and the confidentiality and privacy that the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts afford him. We are challenging fathers to rally and protest, and have the courage to stand up and fight back.”

Smith is especially concerned about the impact that the rulings of Judge Larry Willis have on the health and welfare of local fathers. In recent years, reports of suicide deaths in connection with child support rulings have been on the rise, not only in the U.S. but globally. Suicide among males is now four times higher than among females with male deaths representing 79 percent of all U.S. suicides, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Smith also notes that Judge Larry Willis’ actions may open the door to taking a closer look at how child support cases are handled not only in the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts, but statewide. For more than a decade, fathers residing in Virginia have turned to state and national organizations for support and to share their stories.

“Virginia is for lawyers, but not divorced fathers,” said Lawrence White, a father and Virginia resident who shared his perspective with Fathers for Equal Rights. “And the treatment I’ve received as a divorced father and non-custodial parent only serves to highlight the serious flaws and injustices which exist in the child support enforcement policies, court system and laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia.”

To join with Fred Smith and Chesapeake Fathers for Justice and Fair Treatment in demanding an investigation into the rulings of Judge Larry Willis and the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts, contact the offices of Virginia Attorney General Mark. R. Herring.

Judge Larry Willis of the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court has violated the law. He is against fathers and a father has NO rights in The Chesapeake JDR Courts. This is an injustice of The Chesapeake Juvenile Courts.

Misconduct in The Chesapeake family courts. Unlawful actions by Judge Larry Willis of the Chesapeake JDR courts. Judge Larry Willis destroys the life of fathers. A father has NO rights in this court! The Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court.

Horrible injustice in the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts by dishonorable Judge Larry Willis serving in The Chesapeake JDR Courts Courtroom one. Multiple law violations including Federal and State laws. Judicial Misconduct in the Chesapeake Juvenile Courts located in Chesapeake, Virginia.

A Father has no Rights the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court. Fathers are stripped of all of their Civil rights and Civil liberties in The Chesapeake JDR Courts. Make sure that you hire a Court Reporter at all times while you’re in The Chesapeake JDR Courts.

A Fathers story of the struggle in the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts. There is no justice in this court. No laws are followed, laws are broken in The Chesapeake JDR Courts on a daily basis. The lives of children and families are ruined in this court. There is a great injustice in The Chesapeake Juvenile Courts.

Judge Larry Willis destroys fathers lives by ordering Child Support that is high than a person’s income. Help stop this injustice. The Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts puts fathers in poverty while making them homeless and making them slaves for the rest of their lives. The Chesapeake JDR Court violates State and Federal child Support Statues.

Judge Larry David Willis breaks the rules while on the bench. The Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts has failed fathers leaving them broke with NO way out. This is a great injustice deep within the Chesapeake JDR Courts based in Chesapeake, Virginia.

The City of Chesapeake Juvenile Courts are in violation of Federal and State laws. They take everything from fathers leaving them with no place to live, no funds to live on and no future. Fathers are being ordered to pay more than their incomes will allow. There is no Justice in the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court in Chesapeake, VA

Unlawful acts by a Judge in The Chesapeake JDR Courts has ruined the life of many fathers that want to pay their Child support. They take all of the money that they have to live on. This is judicial misconduct in The Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts by Judge Larry David Willis in Chesapeake, VA. Injustice in the City of Chesapeake Juvenile Courts.

All of the reply letters that I have received from some of the highest members of government elected officials both on a State and Federal level all mentioned that they DO not have the authority to interfere with a State Judge at The Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court. Instead they sent me legal resources and information on Civil Rights groups.

Now if they know that my rights are being violated as a US citizen is it not part of their job to make sure that this does NOT happen??

Both of the State Senators of Virginia replied to my letters however Virginia State Senator Mark Warner and Virginia State Senator Tim Kaine both have stated that their authority is over federal matters. Both Mark Warner and Tim Kaine have said that they do not have the authority to interfere with a State Judge.

Well, if my Civil Rights are being violated and Federal laws are being violated should this be just cause to get involved and invoke federal authority over a state court??

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe reversed an order to suspend my drivers license so that I could work! Virginia State Governor Terry McAuliffe responded to my letters and took action but he was the only one that did.

Furthermore, I have a list of case law quotes that show a history of where this is happened before in the State of Virginia and in many States across the country. Every court that has committed these same type of Illegal actions in the past were either deemed to be in ERROR or the Child Support orders were reversed. I will post a full list of case law below.

There were some pay weeks were I received NOTHING at all. Zero dollars and zero cents! Even when I was unemployed for months or my income had legitimately dropped, (I had proof but he never looked at it!) I have been to court multiple times and he would not lower my child support.

It’s almost like he purposely wants to put you in jail, be in debt the rest of your entire life or draw you into committing suicide by ordering you to pay a child support amount that exceeds your income. This has caused me to live in great poverty and fear. I see no way out, either I will be a slave for the rest of my life or a criminal for the Illegal actions taken against me by Judge Willis of The Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court.

The Social Security Act

The Commonwealth of Virginia participates in a federal program under which it receives Title IV-D federal funds under the Social Security Act. As a condition of receiving such funds, it must comply with federal requirements.

When Judge Larry D. Willis of the Chesapeake Juvenile Court ordered me to pay a child support amount that is more than my income, a child support order that I can not possibly pay, he willing and knowingly violated the Legal Statutes below:

As it is written both in the Federal and State Statute:

(b1) The maximum part of the aggregate disposable earnings of an individual for any workweek which is subject to garnishment to enforce any order for the support of any person shall not exceed:

(1) Sixty percent of such individual’s disposable earnings for that week; or

(2) If such individual is supporting a spouse or dependent child other than the spouse or child with respect to whose support such order was issued, 50 percent of such individual’s disposable earnings for that week.

The 50 percent specified in subdivision (b1) (2) shall be 55 percent and the 60 percent specified in subdivision (b1) (1) shall be 65 percent if and to the extent that such earnings are subject to garnishment to enforce an order for support for a period which is more than 12 weeks prior to the beginning of such workweek.

(c) No court of the Commonwealth and no state agency or officer may make, execute, or enforce any order or process in violation of this section.

THIS IS WRITTEN IN THE FEDERAL CODE AND THE STATE CODE.

Judge Larry D. Willis of The Chesapeake JDR Courts has knowingly and willfully violated State and Federal law more than once but is protected by Judicial Immunity. Well I think not because case law can prove that Judicial Immunity is NOT absolute.

In the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court, God only knows how many laws are broken and ignored. I will proceed to FEDERAL COURT!

It is awful bad when as many as 25,000 fathers commit suicide every year over child support and in many cases the media will cover this up. They find other reasons like mental disorders or depression to rule in as the reason for the fathers committing suicide.

Many fathers on The Fathers Rights Movement Facebook page are going through the same thing. They have posted images of pay check stubs where they make very little to nothing to live on. These fathers want to support their children but they do not want to live as a slave and struggle for many years without a place to stay, food, gas and bus fair since many fathers loose their drivers license. To force a working father that wants to pay his child support into slavery should be a crime in The United States of America.

By being in the same position I now understand why some fathers just are not able to find a way out and unfortunately commit suicide.

THE LAW

Under Federal Regulation Code Title 45 Section 302.56 (g) (f), 42 U.S. Code § 667 and the Code of Virginia (§ 20-108.1) the correct amount for child support must be calculated first using the statutory child support guidelines. No additions or subtractions to gross income may be made before the initial figure is computed.

The amount of the award which would result from the application of the guidelines is the correct amount of child support to be awarded.

If there are findings or facts for a deviation from the statuary child support guidelines, the amount of the award that would have been awarded must be documented in writing.

Then also reason for the finding must be documented in writing even if it’s just incorporated by reference so that the child support amount is not deemed unjust or inappropriate.

Virginia Child Support Orders

In Virginia, there is an area designed for this on the child support order itself. This is not only State law but Federal Law as well.

This area on all of my Child Support orders is blank!

Child Support in Virginia is supposed to be calculated by your proven income and State guidelines as pursuant to (§ 20-108.1.) and (42 U.S. Code § 667).

When a person is ordered to pay more than 65% of his disposable income it is a violation of (15 U.S. Code § 1673 B) and (§ 34-29 b1). As it states in the law Statute it is totally prohibited.

Any deviation must have REASON, especially a deviation that takes more than 65% of disposable income that which violates (§ 34-29 b1) and (15 U.S. Code § 1673 B).

Case Law

I have posted some case law below that will prove that the same unlawful actions have occurred in the past and they have rendered courts in error!

There are even some cases in which the child supports orders have been reversed.

• “We hold that the trial court erred in failing to calculate the presumptive amount of child support and in failing to provide a written explanation for a deviation from the child support guidelines, and we reverse and remand with directions to comply with Code 20-108.1 and 20-108.2. .” See – * HYLTON VS HYLTON Record No. 2307-96-3 VA 1999 ; JUDGE DONALD W. LEMONS

The Chesapeake Juvenile Courts

Even the attorney for The Division of Child Support Enforcement admitted in court that this my child support amount was extreme and well above the State’s child support guidelines. It was an extreme deviation from the child support guidelines without REASON.

There was NO evidence to support such a drastic deviation from the guidelines. There is no legal reason for this deviation from the guidelines and NO explanation, reason or findings have ever been documented in writing which is required by law.

There is an area of the child support order to document any deviation even if it is only incorporated by reference. This area is blank on all of my child support orders that were created by Judge Larry D. Willis of the Chesapeake JDR Courts.

The area on the Child Support order is blank. I cannot appeal because he makes it thousands of dollars in bonds to appeal my case.

There were some weeks that I did not have a 40 hour work week and I received a paycheck for 0.00 (zero dollars and zero cents). In my personal option this is judicial modern day slavery.

There is also NO evidence that suggests that my ex-wife’s income was also calculated in the child support order as pursuant to § 20-108.1.

Judge Larry Willis of The Chesapeake Juvenile Court has never laid eyes on any income documents that I bring with me to court. He never asks to see any documents or any evidence of any kind. All evidence presented or words spoken by me have been ignored.

Both of the child support order amounts are higher than my income for the last three years.

JUDICIAL COMPLAINTS

I have filed two judicial complaints. The Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission denied to investigate both complaints that were filed even with solid evidence.

Judge Larry D. Willis served on the Judicial Inquiry Review committee in the past and I believe that he is protected. He has clearly shown bias favoritism in regard to my Child support case.

This statement is virtually impossible to prove but I have witnessed him act on my ex-wife’s behalf as an attorney. I have seen him remove a court reporter from the court room and I have talked to many attorneys that have expressed statements which I would plainly describe as misconduct in the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court.

I pray for Justice involved my child support case. There have been acts of an Illegal and unlawful manner taken against me by officers in the State judiciary court system.

This is an Injustice deep within the court system that is ruining my life. Do to the injustice plagued upon me by a State officer of authority I have been denied the means to an appeal so that this matter could have been resolved through litigation.

This has caused me to think about ending my life by suicide many times. I live in poverty, sometimes not even having food. I am basically homeless having to live with whoever will help me. I suffer from great depression and mental disorders from this being done to me. I lack the money to go see a doctor and I am immediate denied Government medical assistance because in the State Government system I make enough to pay thousands a year in Child Support.

I already have been through severe traumatizing events as a child. This is a separate story that was broadcasted all over the world on CNN News and other large news outlets.

He has took away my RIGHTS for any government benefits. I have been immediately denied Government Medicare and the food stamp program because my income in the State Government system shows that I can pay thousands a month in child support so my income in the State system is too high to receive any government benefits. This is false and untrue.

I have proof and documentation of everything stated in this report.

JUDGE LARRY D. WILLIS of THE CHESAPEAKE JDR COURTS HAS DESTROYED MY LIFE AND CONTINUES TO DO SO MAKING ME A SLAVE FOR THE REST of MY LIFE!

I have a Civil right to a fair hearing. There was no evidence or REASON for the deviation which violates § 34-29 (b1) and the Federal Statute15 U.S. Code § 1673Section B.

I have documentation proving that Judge Larry David Willis of The Chesapeake Juvenile Court orders excessive amounts of child support that is impossible to pay. Judge Larry D. Willis deviates from the guidelines without cause or reason.

Judge Larry Willis orders a child support amount that is more than a person’s Income. This is modern day judicial slavery.

CASE LAW LIST

“Any deviation from the presumptive amount must be supported by written findings of the trial Judge specifying why the application of the guideline amount would be unjust or inappropriate.” See – *Richardson, 12 Va. App. at 21, 401 S.E.2d at 896.

In any proceeding determining child support, there is a rebuttable presumption that the amount determined through application of the statutory child support guidelines is the correct amount. See – *Code §§ 20-108.1(B) and –108.2(A).

“a conclusory written statement of [the circuit court’s] findings” is not sufficient to justify deviating from the presumptive guideline amount. Id. If the circuit court fails to provide sufficient explanation for any deviation it decides to make, its actions will be deemed error.” See – *Pharo v. Pharo, 19 Va. App. 236, 450 S.E.2d 183 (1994).

Under normal circumstances, a party seeking modification of an existing child support obligation needs show there has been a material or substantial change in circumstances which justifies the change. This discourages people from flooding the courthouse with requests to modify the current amount unless something which would drive the support amount (income, health insurance, daycare, etc.) has changed considerably. However, existing Virginia case law suggests that the imposition of new guidelines, even with nothing else, justifies changing the support amount, where the change in amount is significant. (See Milligan v. Milligan, 12 Va. App. 982 (1991), see also Slonka v. Pennline, 17 Va. App. 662 (1994) and Head v. Head, 24 Va. App. 166, 176, 480 S.E.2d 780 (1997).

“Only if [circuit courts] follow the statutory requirements will Virginia child support awards conform to the federal and state legislative mandates designed to create uniformity in support awards between parents and children similarly situated. [Circuit courts] must make the requisite specific written findings, not solely for the purposes of appellate review, but, more important, to enable . . . judges in future hearings to decide whether and how to increase, decrease, or terminate support. Only by having specific written findings will . . . judges in subsequent proceedings be able to make informed decisions on how a change in circumstances may justify modification or may justify continued deviation from the guidelines.” See – *Hiner v. Hadeed, 15 Va. App. 575, 581-82, 425 S.E.2d 811, 815 (1993) (internal citations omitted).

“a trial court must make an on-the-record finding of the presumptive child support amount before applying deviation criteria in order to facilitate appellate review in those cases in which the trial court finds that a deviation is justified; the finding will enable an appellate court to compare the ultimate order with the guideline amount and make a more informed decision on a claim that the amount of the deviation, rather than the fact of a deviation; court failed to do so which constituted an abuse of discretion”; Mayfield v. Mayfield, 2013 IL 114655, 989 N.E.2d 601 (III. 2013)

“trial court must apply the child support guidelines, unless it finds that a deviation is appropriate based on the evidence presented by the parties on various factors, and if it does, it must explain why”; In re Marriage of Kent, 245 III. App. 3d 575, 615 N.E.2d 402 (1993)

“so long as court explains reasons for deviation, court does not have to use words “unjust” or “inappropriate” to deviate”. 23 Burnside v. Somerville, 202 A.D.2d 1064. 609 N.Y.S.2d 127 (1994). See also In re Marriage of Upson, 991 P.2d 341 (Cob. Ct. App. 1999)

“We hold that the trial court erred in failing to calculate the presumptive amount of child support and in failing to provide a written explanation for a deviation from the child support guidelines, and we reverse and remand with directions to comply with Code 20-108.1 and 20-108.2. .” See – * HYLTON VS HYLTON Record No. 2307-96-3 VA 1999 ; JUDGE DONALD W. LEMONS

(interpreting the analogous “written findings” requirement for spousal-support orders and stating the need for the trial court to explain “its resolution of any significant underlying factual disputes”). This is because there must be “enough detail and exactness to allow for effective appellate review of the findings.” Princiotto v. Gorrell, 42 Va. App. 253, 260, 590 S.E.2d 626, 630 (2004) (internal quotation marks omitted).

[T]here shall be a rebuttable presumption in any judicial or administrative proceeding for child support that the amount of the award which would result from the application of the guidelines set out in § 20-108.2 is the correct amount of child support to be awarded…. In order to rebut the presumption, the court shall make written findings in the order, which findings may be incorporated by reference, that the application of such guidelines would be unjust or inappropriate in a particular case. The finding that rebuts the guidelines shall state the amount of support that would have been required under the guidelines, shall give a justification of why the order varies from the guidelines, and shall be determined by relevant evidence pertaining to [certain enumerated statutory factors] affecting the obligation, the ability of each party to provide child support, and the best interests of the child… See also Farley v. Liskey, 12 Va.App. 1, 4, 401 S.E.2d 897, 899 (1991). Herring v. Herring, 532 S.E.2d 923 (Va. Ct. App. 2000).Brody v. Brody, 432 S.E.2d 20 (Va. Ct. App. 1993).Walter Edward Saxon, Jr. v. Angela LeSueur, 0516132 (Va. Ct. App. 2013).Kirk T. Milam v. Shelia J. Milam, 0837124 (Va. Ct. App. 2013). James Jospeh Ledwith v. Beth Faber Ledwith, 0154042 (Va. Ct. App. 2004).Deborah C. Sproles v. Robert K. Lowry, IV, 0134983 (Va. Ct. App. 1999).Zubair A. Saleem v. Afshan Ghias Saleem, a/k/a et a, 0443974 (Va. Ct. App. 1998).

“Larry Willis had been the Chairman of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission for years up until a new chair was chosen about a month ago. He was personally responsible for keeping bad judges on the bench by sweeping their misdeeds under the rug. Of over 2100 complaints filed in 2008, he only saw fit to investigate 20.

He probably ignored their misdeeds because his own were usually much worse. Sleeping through trials, playing on his computer instead of following the proceedings, making his decisions before the testimony is completed, refusing to listen to litigants who were pro se, acting as the attorney for litigants that he liked, and the list goes on.

I’m calling on all “victims” to contact me. If we have sufficient numbers, maybe we can challenge his reappointment. Unless we have numbers, there is no need to waste our time.”

Judge Larry Willis of the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court has violated multiple federal and State laws.

I have sold proof and yet nothing is done about it!!

I have asked for help from any resources. I have already sent my documented proof to the Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, Mark Warner, Tim Kaine, members of the general assembly, Wavy TV Ten, and many other news media resources.

Judge Larry D. Willis of the Chesapeake JDR Court may retaliate however I have many civil rights groups standing by my side. I am a member of The Fathers Rights Movement and this organization is all too familiar with my case. I have the hacktivist group Anonymous helping me get the word out about my online. The Fathers Rights Movement, Anonymous and other civil rights groups stand ready to rally in Protest on my behalf if this Judge takes out his vengeance.

We all stand together as one in this matter of Judge Larry Willis of the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court.

I ask for only one thing, for Judge Larry Willis of the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court to DO his job and follow the law! I call out for an investigation into my case at the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court. Judge Larry D. Willis needs to be held accountable for his crimes against fathers who have cases in the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court.

I ask for help from any attorneys so that I can seek Justice in Federal Court. I ask for any media outlets to contact me to get my story to the public. I will take this matter to FEDERAL COURT myself if needed for a violation of my RIGHTS as a US citizen of the United States of America.

Response from President Barack Obama, the Governor Terry McAuliffe, the State Senators of Virginia, Mark Warner and Tim Kaine

After I contacted President Barack Obama, The Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, Mark Warner and Tim Kaine I have received a few letters of response. They are baffled about my child support case and The Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe has done what he can to help me with my child support case at The Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court.

I have exchanged letters with The Obama Administration, The Governor’s office, Mark Warner’s office and Tim Kaines office. I have sent documentation to all of them that provides one hundred percent proof beyond any doubt that Judge Larry Willis of the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court has violated multiple State and Federal laws. The Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe has launched an investigation into my case and has sent my complaint information to the local Division of Child Support Enforcement here in Chesapeake, VA. I have been on the phone with the supervisor of this office.

The Chesapeake Division of Child Support office is located at:

814 Greenbrier Cir
Chesapeake, VA
(757) 548-7900

I am highly grateful that The Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has looked into my case and investigated the details of my child support case however The Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, Virginia State Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine have all informed me in writing that they DO NOT have the authority to overturn a State Judges Decision. Even if Judge Larry D. Willis violates both federal and State laws.

The Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe did reverse an administrative order to suspend my driver’s license so that I can work. I am thankful for this and I think that Governor Terry McAuliffe is awesome!! He cares about the little people whether they are felons, male, female, rich, poor, white or black. I would like to thank Governor Terry McAuliffe personally for helping me however more needs to be done.

I have also send documentation to President Obama, members of the General Assembly, Civil Rights Groups and National and local media resources. I ask that people gather with me in protest against this injustice. I call out to fathers and other victims of The the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court. I am in contact with a tleast five other fathers, three families who are victims of The the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court. The Fathers Rights Movement and other Civil Rights groups stand ready.

Other Victims of Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court

I am in contact with other fathers that claim that they have been treated unfairly by this court just because of their gender.

What I can do is tell you what other licensed attorneys have told me about this court and I can provide documentation with solid facts that prove beyond any doubt that Judge Larry Willis of the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court has violated at least four State and Federal laws.

I have been in contact with other fathers that feel that they are victims of the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court. Fathers who have lost their visitation and custody rights in the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court. Fathers who are like me and are victimized by The Chesapeake JDR courts by Judges that violate federal and State laws.

Only a few of these fathers have had the courage to post information online about their cases in the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court.

I once was talking to an attorney about this. She said that for people to post negative things about a Judge or certain court online is perfectly normal. That it’s going to happen. Well I did some research and this statement is FALSE. It really is not that common for litigates to feel so victimized by a Judge that they post their information online.

The Fathers Rights Movement

The Fathers Rights Movement is a civil rights group for fathers however many of the Facebook followers and members of the Fathers rights Movement are women. They also have children, both boys and girls who take the microphone to stand in protest against Social services and family courts all over the country.

They protest wrongful practices and unlawful actions by family courts nationwide. The Fathers Rights Movement stands by my side as they also are familiar with my case and documentation.

Father Suicides

As many as 25,000 father commit suicide every year over child support. These fathers are firefighters, police officers and our beloved military officers. Most of the child support cases in America are not calculated correctly. Bad Judges turn men into Slaves for the rest of their lives. Fathers need fair justice and equal rights as parents. The lives of fathers is being destroyed!

The City of Chesapeake Family Courts rapes and robs fathers of their Civil Rights. I have proof that the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court has broken many laws and they charge excessive amounts of Child Support that is higher than your income. There is No Justice in The Chesapeake JDR courts.

I desired to offer you all an replace on my deal with DCSE and also their NAZI tactics and void orders.

On Thursday, I was in JDR Courtroom earlier than former Fairfax County Choose Michael Valentine (this guy’s bought a very good and distinguished resumé) on a Rule to Show Trigger for violating a 2005 order — which was in fact superseded numerous occasions — but the first order of corporate was the Demurrer I actually had filed.

DCSE filed not only a response to the Demurrer, except a motion for sanctions both in opposition to me, in addition to John Bauserman ought to he have agreed to argue besides the Demurrer at my behalf — which John did fairly capably).

Let me preface this by stating I used to be a hundred% that Choose Valentine desired to bury my sorry ass under the Prince William County jail to incorporate financing February, however I elected to “come present” on DCSE’s alleged arrearage ahead of the hearing.

On Thursday, I’d already ready a Discover of Attraction (which I believe is a good suggestion for you as you getting through an episode cause listening to in JDR Court docket)…but after about 15 minutesof preliminary issues, I did have already concluded I wasn’t going to want the Discover and I balled this quietly and positioned it beside me found on the table.

The only issue challenge we orally argued leaving your Demurrer was the “non-attorney employee of DCSE” signing authorized pleadings — the first they did on my behalf in 2002, which diminished my assist obligations for a couple of months retroactively to the date of filing in 2001. Our argument was until this order — and every single order in accordance to this order had been void ab initio on grounds that they will were either based around a void order or were void themselves.

As the decide acknowledged that he was with regards to on the amended legislation as far as it permits non-lawyer staff to rehearse regulation by signing these pleadings, he said that “any first year on the job [law student] would be aware of the fact that the retroactive utilization of this laws (which is clearly written within the law) is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

In the end, the Choose sustained my Demurrer and dismissed the Rule to Show Cause. DCSE has 10 days to draw in Circuit Court…John begged them to take action on my behalf and I end up laughing my ass off all of the way from the courtroom…the Choose denied DCSE’s movement to rethink, letting them know to go to Circuit Court.

For sure, both John and I had been stunned, but we feel that this is the first publish-enactment discovering as a side job AGAINST DCSE and should likely end up once more again on the hide of Virginia Lawyer’s Weekly for every attorneys throughout the Commonwealth to read.

What am i getting at for most people? I feel it’ll imply an elimination of many money — if it is not your complete stability of the $thirteen,000 arrearage…should any one you wish what is known as the “Briggman defense” from it’s complete kind, simply e mail me.

It was actually an excellent day for non-custodial mother and father all through Virginia and will be the grass roots of the vacation of 1,000,000 child support orders all through the Commonwealth.
Dave Briggman

A man is severely assaulted by his wife or girlfriend every 14.6 seconds.

When a man is battered by his spouse there is no shelter which would take him.

The government which should protect him, will imprison him even if he is falsely accused by his wife.

He will lose his job, and will be subjected to social shame.

Family courts incentivises his abuser by extorting money from him.

Divorce alienates him from his children, takes away his house, and his money. A man who has lost his children, house, and social image receives no help from the same government which he pays tax to.

All this helplessness leads to drug and alcohol abuse which also makes him depressed and suicidal.

This is a global phenomenon.Lists of various suicide statistics per year of men, which far exceeds women’s rates:

America 24,672 – 5950

India 63,343 – 31,921

Canada 2,989 – 901

Australia 1,727 – 546

UK 4,552 – 1,493

Russia 35,608 – 7,247

Lithuania 952 – 186

So many men are killing themselves every year..

What are we doing about it?

Child Support Suicides – Fathers Killing Themselves over Child Support

Anywhere from 6000 – 25,000 fathers kill themselves each year due to Illegal actions by family court and child support enforcement. These men are Military Officers, Police officers, firefighters, etc…..

Some fathers are ordered to pay more than they make! They take your driver’s license; they take your life and destroy it. They do not go by your income; they make up income that you never made. They will impute income. They want you in jail so they can make money off of you from federal incentives.

One of my best friends hung himself in 2006 over Child Support. I have experienced being ordered to pay more than I make! I am thousands in Arrears. Family courts and Child Support Enforcement will break laws and destroy your life and leave you with no way out.

KEENE, N.H. – On a mid-June afternoon, an unemployed history buff from Holden, Mass. announced cryptically on his Facebook page that “D-Day’’ had arrived.

“Time to climb down into the Higgins boat and take a bouncing ride to the beach,’’ wrote Thomas Ball, referring to the World War II amphibious landing craft.

Four hours later, the divorced father of three died outside a courthouse in downtown Keene after igniting himself in a gory self-immolation.

Engulfed in flame, he screamed as he stumbled from the courthouse steps, fell to his hands and knees, and eventually fell silent.

Ball’s final words were delivered in the next day’s mail.

A friend in New Hampshire got a card with the tender inscription, “I miss you already.’’

The Keene Sentinel received a biting screed against the legal system, in which Ball recounted the ongoing 10-year court battle over his divorce, child support payments, and visitation rights with his children.

“A man walks up to the main door of the Keene N.H. County Courthouse, douses himself with gasoline and lights a match,’’ Ball’s letter begins. “And everyone wants to know why.’’

Such a desperate act would be shocking anywhere, but in the middle of a quaint New England college town, at the end of what Ball had once called “the prettiest Main Street in America,’’ it seems unthinkable.

His death and final writings have resonated within the father’s rights movement, of which he was an active member, and revealed a stubborn man consumed by his court battles and, over time, sinking further into darkness.

Ball, 58, intended his fiery death on June 15 – planned and researched at least 10 days in advance – to be the ultimate profane gesture, according to his writings, interviews, and court and police documents. He was taking aim squarely at the courts he blamed for keeping him apart from his kids and for what he saw as the system’s corrupt and ruthless emasculation of divorced dads.

“Face it boys, we are no longer fathers,’’ Ball wrote. “We are piggy banks.’’

The courts and his former wife tell a different story. They paint a picture of a prideful and headstrong man who once lost his temper, slapped his 4-year-old daughter hard enough to draw blood, and then chose to remain estranged from his children rather than acknowledge he made a mistake and participate in court-ordered counseling.

Ball’s love for his children “made it impossible for him to accept that some of his actions were harmful to them,’’ his former wife, Karen, said Thursday in an e-mail. “He was unable to comply with the court’s requirement to meet with the children’s counselor because to do so would mean acknowledging that he had done something to warrant the requirement.

For years, Ball, acting as his own lawyer, filed one unsuccessful court motion after another seeking access to his children and to undo the requirement that he participate in counseling, which he rejected on principle.

He channeled his frustration at the legal system into action with father’s rights groups seeking to change the law to give fathers more clout in custody and divorce proceedings. Ball would picket courthouses while carrying a sign that read “Children need their fathers’’; he ran seminars for divorced dads on court procedures.

Ball spoke often about missing his children but did not seem depressed and never revealed any violent streak, said Ethan Allen of Clinton, 61, a close friend who met Ball more than 10 years ago through the Army Reserve.

“This is something that happened out of the clear blue sky,’’ Allen said.

Several divorced dads who knew Ball said that while they cannot condone what he did, they understand where his frustration came from.

“Tom’s story, other than its end, is pretty common,’’ said Ned Holstein, chairman of Fathers and Families, a court reform group Ball belonged to.

Ball’s legal story starts in 2001, with three slaps across his daughter’s face when she refused to go to bed.

At the time, the Balls were living in Jaffrey with their daughters, 7 and 4, and son, 2. Tom Ball was working as a service adviser at a nearby Ford dealership. After 11 years of marriage, Tom and Karen had been drifting apart, Tom Ball said in a 40-page memoir he wrote at least two years ago and posted on the Web.

“The gap between us kept stretching until finally you would ask yourself, ‘What did I ever see in her?’ ’’ Ball wrote.

The slapping incident effectively ended the marriage. Karen called the police; Tom was charged with assault. She filed for divorce within weeks.

Tom Ball’s defense was that a parent has the right to discipline a misbehaving child with corporal punishment.

A Superior Court judge later dismissed the case, saying the slaps were inappropriate but not criminal.

Ball, who had moved to Massachusetts to live with his brothers, wrote that he expected to be reunited with his daughters after prevailing in court, but Karen Ball won sole legal custody of the children in the divorce.

“Unfortunately due to the conflict in this divorce, conflict between Mr. Ball and his daughters’ counselors, pride, stubbornness, or other reasons this court cannot fathom, Mr. Ball never participated in the process that would have caused him to reestablish contact with his daughters and begin visitation,’’ the divorce judge wrote. Ball did have visitation with his son, according to court records.

Ball would later write that he decided to fight so relentlessly after reading about NFL legend Jim Brown, who chose a six-month jail sentence “on principle’’ instead of court-ordered counseling after being convicted of vandalizing his wife’s car. “Jim Brown was led out of the courthouse in handcuffs and taken to the can for six months,’’ Ball wrote in his memoir. “What he did defied logic. But I knew he was right.’’

In 2009, Ball filed one of his motions seeking unsupervised visits with his daughters. Most of the motions he wrote were competent and well-written, but this one meandered and personally criticized a judge. It also noted that a mental health specialist who consulted on the case had died. Ball wrote that he wouldn’t visit the cemetery for “fear that if I do, then I will urinate upon her grave.’’

His writings grew increasingly dark. In his last letter, published online by the Sentinel, Ball gave the history of the Molotov cocktail and exhorted divorced fathers to burn down courthouses and police stations.

Outside of these grim papers, Ball came off as intelligent and funny, with a deep love of history, genealogy, and Motown music, according to people who knew him.

He always smelled like freshly ironed clothes, said friend Trish Hamel of Milford, N.H., who spoke to Ball frequently. They visited historic buildings and cemeteries together; she brought him to a blues concert several weeks before he died.

“He was a sweet, gentle person, just in a lot of pain,’’ she said. Most of the complaints in Ball’s last letter sound familiar from their many conversations, she said. “Everything except the violence; I can’t reconcile that.’’

The Balls were due back in court this month for a hearing on a possible contempt finding against Tom, who had lost his job and had fallen several thousand dollars behind in child support. He wrote that he expected to be jailed.

Ten days before his suicide, Ball did two things that, in hindsight, suggest he was plotting his death.

During visiting time with his son, Ball drove to the courthouse in Keene, got out of his car and took a long look at the building, Karen Ball told the police.

That same day, Ball e-mailed a friend, Wayne Jewett of North Attleboro, saying he would need help sending out a statement later in June. “At the time it didn’t make any sense,’’ said Jewett. Ball never followed up, apparently deciding to mail his final letter to the Sentinel.

Security cameras recorded Ball moving methodically in his last moments. The unreleased video is described in police reports.

Ball tugged at the locked doors at the Cheshire County Superior Courthouse.

He left his driver’s license and the key to his Ford Mustang in a sandwich bag on the sidewalk.

Next, he opened a red plastic gasoline can, tipped the container above his head and drenched himself.

With a red cigarette lighter clutched in his right hand, he sat down on the concrete, reenacting the iconic Vietnam-era image of a Buddhist monks politically charged suicide by fire.

He jumped up when the flames appeared and walked 20 feet from the courthouse doors before he fell. A passerby kicked dirt on him to try to douse the flames. A police officer ran up with a fire extinguisher, but it was too late for Ball.

The last words of his last letter were meant for his children:

“You are to stick together no matter how old you get or how far apart you live,’’ he wrote. “Because it is like Grandma always said. The only thing you really have in this world is your family.’’

Mark Arsenault can be reached at marsenault@globe.com

THIS is His Note:

Last Statement

by Tom Ball

A man walks up to the main door of the Keene N.H. County Courthouse, douses himself with gasoline and lights a match. And everyone wants to know why.

Apparently the old general was right. Death is not the worst of evil.

I am due in court the end of the month. The ex-wife lawyer wants me jailed for back child support. The amount ranges from $2,200. to $3,000. depending on who you ask. Not big money after being separated over ten years and unemployed for the last two. But I do owe it. If I show up for court without the money and the lawyer say jail, then the judge will have the bailiff take me into custody. There really are no surprises on how the system works once you know how it actually works. And it does not work anything like they taught you in high school history or civics class.

I could have made a phone call or two and borrowed the money. But I am done being bullied for being a man. I cannot believe these people in Washington are so stupid to think they can govern Americans with an iron fist. Twenty-five years ago, the federal government declared war on men. It is time now to see how committed they are to their cause. It is time, boys, to give them a taste of war.

There are two kinds of bureaucrats you need to know; the ones that say and the ones that do. The bridge between them is something I call The Second Set of Books. I have some figures of the success of their labors. You and I are in these numbers, as well as our spouses and children. But first let me tell you how I ended up in this rabbit hole.

My story starts with the infamous slapping incident of April 2001. While putting my four year old daughter to bed, she began licking my hand. After giving her three verbal warnings I slapped her. She got a cut lip. My wife asked me to leave to calm things down.

When I returned hours later, my wife said the police were by and said I could not stay there that night. The next day the police came by my work and arrested me, booked me, and then returned me to work. Later on Peter, the parts manager, asked me if I and the old lady would be able to work this out. I told him no. I could not figure out why she had called the police. And bail condition prevented me from asking her. So I no longer trusted her judgment.

After six months of me not lifting a finger to save this marriage, she filed for divorce. Almost two years after the incident, I was talking with her on the phone. She told me that night she had called a mental health provider we had for one of the kids. Wendy, the counselor told my then wife that if she did not call the police on me, then she too would be arrested.

Suddenly, everything made sense. She is the type that believes that people in authority actually know what they are talking about. If both she and I were arrested, what would happen to our three children, ages 7,4 and 1? They would end up in State custody. So my wife called the police on her husband to protect the children. And who was she protecting the kids from? Not her husband, the father of these children. She was protecting them from the State of New Hampshire.

This country is run by idiots.

The police sergeant Freyer screwed this up from the get go. When I got the Court Complaint form the box was checked that said Domestic Violence Related. I could not believe that slapping your child was domestic violence. So I looked up the law. Minor custodial children are exempted. Apparently, 93% of American parents still spank, slap or pinch their children. To this day I still wonder if Freyer would have made this arrest if it had been the mother that had slapped the child.

Labeling someone’s action as domestic violence in American in the 21st century is akin to labeling someone a Jew in Germany in the 1930′s. The entire legal weight of the state is coming down on him. But I consider myself lucky. My family was destroyed. But that poor bastard in Germany had his family literally annihilated.

Arrests are mandatory for the police in New Hampshire for domestic violence. That is not law. That is police department policy. Laws come from the Legislature and the Governor’s office together. God only knows where these policies come from. The State’s Attorney General also has a mandatory arrest protocol for domestic violence. I call these policies, procedures and protocols The Second Set of Books. You never cover the Second Set of Books your junior year in high school. That because we are not suppose to have a Second Set of Books. This is America-we have the rule of law.

I am a regular guy, a coffee and cheeseburger type of fellow. As remarkable as my life has been, I figure that what happens to me must be happening to others as well. I was 48 years old when I got arrested here for my first time. So I went looking for the arrest numbers for domestic violence, this new group that I had unwilling joined. I could not find anything. So I wrote the U.S. Dept. of Justice in Washington. They wrote back that they did not keep track of domestic violence arrests. The FBI keeps track of all other crimes. How come not domestic violence? I thought some low level clerk was blowing me off.

At the time, I had mailing addresses in both New Hampshire and Massachusetts. So I wrote to all six Congressional offices, the two Senators from each state and the two Congressman. They like doing favors for constituents hoping you will favorably remember their name in the voting booth. All six offices reported back the same thing. They do not know how many arrests for domestic violence have been made. I immediately knew something was wrong. And I also knew this was not going to be good.

Improvise, adapt and overcome. The Army teaches that to every soldier it trains. They say that no battle plan survives the first five minutes of combat. So your people on the ground had better be able to think for themselves. Taking casualties in war is just an occupational hazard. Taking casualties and not accomplishing your mission is a disaster. After 21 years of Army service, I am pretty good at improvising.

The first thing I found was a study not of domestic violence arrests but of domestic violence injuries for 18 unnamed states and the D.C. in the year 2000. In the study 51% of the injuries were ‘no injuries’. So I knew I had a study of police reports. Who else but a police officer would record no injuries? I populated that out to the 50 states and came up with 874,000 arrest in the year 2000.

I had originally populated the number back to 1994 when the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was enacted into law. I would later find out these arrests stated with the U.S. Attorney General’s Task Force of Domestic Violence ten years earlier in 1984. As individual states data became available for various years and states, I would incorporated in to my informal study. The number I have now in 2011 is 36 million adults have been arrested for domestic violence. I have a gut feeling this number could be as high as 55 million. But I only have data to 36 million. So 36 million it stays. And there is a really cool trick you can do once you have this number. You can find out how many American men. women and children ended up homeless because of these arrests.

Most of the domestic violence statistics I have seen break down with 75% male and 25% female being arrested. So I am going to used the male pronoun for the one arrested spouse and the female pronoun for the victim spouse. That should make the domestic violence feminists ecstatic-man bad, woman good. But that is okay because that is probably the last nice thing I am going to do for them today.

When then a man is arrested for domestic violence, one of two things can happen. If they are only dating and have separate apartments, then he can head home. But if they are living together, then this fellow has a real problem. Bail conditions and then a possible protective or restraining order prevent him from being with her. So he needs to find a new place to live, at least until the charges are resolved. The King of his Castle is no longer allowed into his castle. A feminist name Pence who wrote that was absolutely giddy at that outcome. So he can get his own place if he has enough money. Or he can move in with his mother, his sister or another relative. He might have a girl friend who would let him stay with her. And if none of this is possible, well then I guess he is sleeping in his car down by the river.

If he has minor children, money will soon turn into an issue. Most men I know do not mind paying child support. They want their kids to have food on their plates, clothes on their backs, and a roof over their heads. But it does stress that man’s finances. Child support is usually 33% of the man’s gross income. Withholding for taxes, social security and health insurance can range up to 28% of his gross paycheck. So a man making $500 a week gross has only $825 monthly left over after withholding and child support. That is not enough money for an apartment here in Central Massachusetts. That does not include other expenses like heating, electric, gas, groceries, telephone, cable, car payment and car insurance. So he is in a financial hole. Estimates of homeless men run 82% to 94%. I am going to round that down to 80%.

After the King has left his castle, his wife runs into a problem. She was use to getting his whole paycheck for the household. Now she get a third for child support. Figure they both work and made the same money, her budget went from 100% down to 66%. If she was running the house on $3,045. a month when the King was home, now without him she only has $2,220. Most households in America cannot withstand a 27% hit on the household account. She’ll juggle the bills but eventually most wives figure out that they can pay all the smaller bills if they just does not pay the big bill. That would be the rent or the mortgage. So six to nine months after the King is out of the castle, the Queen, the Princes and the Princesses are also on the street. Domestic violence feminists state that 50% of victim spouses of domestic violence end up homeless at some time in their lives.

The last group of homeless from these arrests are children. The domestic violence feminists state that 70% of domestic violence couple have children. So 50% female times 70% children equals 35%. But children is plural. So we will double to 70%.

(Odd isn’t it? They know that 50% of victim spouses end up homeless and that 70% of them have children. How can they know the percentages when they do not know how many total arrests were made? Those people at the U.S. Justice Dept. cannot even pull off a credible cover-up. )

Men are 0.8, women are 0.5, and children are 0.7 for a grand total of 2.0 homeless Americans for every domestic violence arrest. Multiply that by 36 million and you get 72 million men, women and children ending up homeless at some point in their lives over the last 25 years because of these domestic violence arrests.

That is a really large number even by Washington standards. That is almost 25% of the entire population of the U.S. using 2010 census figures. Which begs the question did these homeless people contribute to this latest economic meltdown, or did they cause it? Because if they did cause it then the recovery will not be measure in months or years but in decades.

Some of the boys in the Father’s Movement think Congress might have shot themselves in the foot over this one. Personally, I think they shot themselves some place anatomically higher. No wonder the Speaker of the House is always crying. The Dummies on the Potomac.

Twenty-five years ago the federal government start pushing these arrests on state’s legal systems. Now, we have an economy on the rope. They have thrown a huge amount of money at banks, big business and local and states government. And we are still in the mud. But no economist either at the Treasury Dept., Federal Reserve, universities or think tanks are even looking at the impact of all these broken families. If that 36 million arrest is correct, then 72 million men and women, have been throw out of the middle class into subsistence living. Or is the number 55 million and 110 million? No one knows and no one is even looking. But why should look? According to the Attorney General, we do not know how many arrests we have made.

And if the Tea Party is any indication, insurrection is brewing in the land. Just a coincident? Not likely. This is what happens when the government wipes out the middle class.

The idea for these arrests came from something called the Minneapolis Police Experiment (MPE) of 1981-82. In the experiment police offices were given pads with one of three words written on them; counsel, send or arrest. Counsel meant the officer was to try to mediate the couple’s spat. Send was to send one of the spouses out of the house for eight hours as a cooling off period. Arrest was arrest one of the two spouses. The officer was to do as the top paper on the pad said to do. The experiment was set up by the Police Foundation and Lawrence W. Sherman was the lead researcher. The results show counseling resulted in a future assault in 24% cases, send was 19%, and the arrest option resulted in a future assault in only 10% of the cases. Perhaps a cheap way of cutting down future domestic violence.

In 1984 The U. S. Attorney General’s Task Force of Domestic Violence recommended arrest as the primary weapon in domestic violence assault. Lawrence W. Sherman recommend not using the arrests because the MPE was just one study and it could be wrong. They ignored him. And by 1992, 93% of the police departments in the nation had adopted some form of mandatory arrest in domestic violence cases.

But by 1992 five more addition studies similar to the MPE became available. Lawrence W. Sherman reviewed all five studies. Then once again he wrote that the police should not use arrest. In two of the five studies, they found the same result as they did in the MPE, that an arrest cut down the odds of a future assault. But in the other three studies an arrest actually increase the odds of a future assault. So arresting someone in a domestic violence situation to cut down on future assaults did not work any better than just flipping a coin. I do not know if Lawrence W. Sherman is still alive. But fortunately he wrote a book call Policing Domestic Violence that was published in 1992.

So we have 800,000 American police officers arresting one in every six adults in the country and throwing 25% of the men, women and children out on the streets in an effort to enforce a policy that they knew did not work back in1992. And I had always assumed that you needed a man to really screw something up. Oh well, there goes another glass ceiling.

Why would they push an arrest policy that does not work? There are two schools of thought on the reason why. The first comes from Lawrence W. Sherman. He calls it the Law of Just Desserts. Revenge for slights and offenses, real or imagined. I am sure there are some that would argue that women are not vengeful. But what is that old saying? Hell hath no fury…..

The second idea comes from the mother of the second wave of feminism. I do speak of the brilliant Betty Friedan. In the Epilogue Chapter of the 20th Anniversary Edition of her book The Feminine Mystique, Betty relayed why she resigned as the first president of the National Organization of Women in 1970. Betty wrote that she, “was unable to openly fight the man haters and unwilling to front for them any more…” So man hating bigots no only existed 40 years ago, they were also grabbing power. Now Washington is funding them. Makes you wonder what bigots they will fund next. Maybe the Klan?

Feminists had always claimed that when women took over, we would have a kinder, gentler, more nurturing world. After 36 million arrests and 72 million evictions what we got was Joe Stalin.

The third wave of feminists do not like to call themselves feminists. The word feminist could be perceived as gender oppression. These third wave of whatever-we-call-you got that right The treachery of our legal system over the last 25 years may end up giving all feminists a bad name. Which would make us as bigoted as the man-hating feminists who got us into this mess to begin with.

So let us talk about those bureaucrats that do. These are the ones that actually carry out the evil deeds. I like call them the do-bies.

Any one swept up into legal mess is usually astonished at what they see. They cannot believe what the police, prosecutors and judges are doing. It is so blatantly wrong. Well, I can assure you that everything they do is logical and by the book. The confusion you have with them is you both are using different sets of books. You are using the old First Set of Books- the Constitution, the general laws or statutes and the court ruling sometime call Common Law. They are using the newer Second Set of Books. That is the collection of the policy, procedures and protocols. Once you know what set of books everyone is using, then everything they do looks logical and upright. And do not bother trying to argue with me that there is no Second Set of Books. I have my own copies at home. Or at least a good hunk of the important part of it.

I got my Second Set of Books when I sued the Jaffrey NH police department. Under the discovery rule, I write them with the material I wanted and it would arrive in the mail a few weeks later. I got the Police Academy Training Manual. I got the Department’s Policy and Procedure Manual. I got the no-drop protocol that the attorney general sent to all his or her prosecutors. I even got the domestic violence protocols for the court system, one hundred pages worth. Once you read it the material, then you will know what the police, prosecutors and judges will do. They are completely predictable once you know what set of books they are using.

The police academy training manual states that an arrest in a domestic violence call is the preferred response. They cite the Minneapolis Police Experiment (MPE) as its justification. But the author of the MPE, Lawrence Sherman, said do not use arrest because five follow up studies show that it did not work. The would be a violation of the 4th Amendment in the First Set of Books against unreasonable search and seizure. Then there is that whole issue of whether the police have the right to arrest for any reason other than they believe a crime was committed.

The Jaffrey Police Department Policy and Procedures Manual states that if a wife says she does not want her husband arrested, the police are to ignore her, arrest the husband, and get with the prosecutor to see what they can work out. In other words, make the arrest and then see if you can Mickey Mouse it. The wife is eligible for spousal immunity. If she invokes it, then no statement she mades, written or oral, are admissible because she cannot be cross examined about it under oath. ( Did you say that? What did you mean when you said that?) With no statements the police have no probable cause in most cases to make an arrest. Also a violation of the 4th amendment in the First Set of Books.

The actor Nickolas Cage was drunk in New Orleans with his wife. Everyone else is drunk in New Orleans, so why should Nick be any different. He and his wife were arguing over which house the rented for their stay. Nick grab his wife’s arm and started to lead her to his house. The police arrested Nick for domestic violence. His wife was stunned. That was not domestic violence. “Nothing we can do,” the police explained to her. “Just following orders.”

That is an accurate explanation for victims, even if they do not think of themselves as victims. The police have a zero tolerance towards any physical contact. Things might get worse in the future is the feminist logical for this present iron fist approach to domestic relations. I would have to agree with them. After all the arrests, poverty, homelessness and misery, I can assure you-things are going to get worse.

But that nothing we can do, just following orders the officers explain always sounds so timid and lame. The police need to punch their explanation up a bit, make it more authoritarian. And there is a quick, low cost way of doing it. The police officers only need to say it in its original German.

The state Constitution in NH said the prosecutors job is to promote justice. The Attorney Generals protocols said that domestic violence case are no-drop cases. (Unless, of course, they take the Deal. Continue the case for a year, go to counseling, and everything falls off the books after the year. They did after all find some way of getting rid of all these cases.)

The Attorney General can hire, fire, layoff, promote, demote, commend or award bonuses. The constitution is some old, quaint, dusty document up in the Statehouse some where. So which one do you think is going to get obeyed?

Prosecutors are funny. Some, maybe most, have egos the size of Cape Cod. But of the three, police, prosecutor and judges, prosecutors have the least protection. Micheal Nifong, the prosecutor in the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case, was fired, disbarred, convicted of a crime, and actually jailed for trying to enforce the no-drop prosecution protocol for sexual assault in the Duke case.

The prosecutor in my criminal case fared a little better. I filed a complaint with his boss for summoning my two daughters, ages 7 and 4, to court. I had already conceded that the facts were not in dispute. The trial would be about the law. No witness were need much less a couple of toddlers. He still summoned them. (The Second Set of Books tells the prosecutors to get a sympathetic face in front of the judge or jury. What’s more sympathetic than toddlers.) The prosecutor could not refute my allegation because I enclosed a copy of the trial transcript. I had to pay for the transcript. When the prosecutor read it, he gave his two weeks notice and then blew town. That transcript was the best $46 I had ever spent in this life.

There is a name for what happens when a bureaucrat is destroyed by the First Set of Books for attempting to enforce the Second Set of Books. It is called the Abu Ghraib Syndrome. The people within the law enforcement community no longer seem to know the difference between the law, with its checks and balances, and the policies, procedure and protocols that constitute The Second Set of Books. In some cases you do not even know who wrote the policy, procedure or protocol. It could have been the local high school gym teacher for all anyone knows. Many of these bureaucrats are eventually going to learn the different between the First and the Second Set of Books. And my guess is that many of them are going to learn it the hard way. Because the only checks and balances in The Second Set of Books is The First Set of Books.

Judges routinely use our children as bargaining chips. Get the adult into counseling, continue the case for a year, and then drop it. This will open up the docket for the new arrests coming in next week. These judges that use our children are not honorable. Which is why I never use the term ‘Your Honor’ any more. I just call them judge.

Alex Baldwin, the actor, wrote that you have never seen a coward until you have seen a Los Angeles County judge. I call my judges-Sullivan, Arnold and even Runyon-cowards, too. When I first started observing them, nothing made sense. Arnold was completely infuriated when he was maneuvered into ruling not guilty. He verbally went up and down me so many times I lost count. What was the big deal? If I was not guilty just say and then we could all go home. But that was back in the days before I knew about The Second Set of Books.

I lost visitation with my two daughters when I got arrested. One was the victim-the other was the witness. After a not guilty, I expected to get visitation with my girls. But the divorce judge, Sullivan, decreed that counseling was in order and they would decide when we would reunite. I told the judge that the decision on whether these two girls had a father or a fatherless childhood was not leaving this courthouse. There would be a couple of reason for that decision.

First, by then I knew of the Second Set of Books. As much as I had prayed for the return of my children, I knew that this counseling might get thrown in the way. Judges are addicted to counseling like a meth-head is addict to crystal meth. Sullivan wrote in the divorce decree that he envision only one or two meetings with the counselor. There is no counseling done in the first meeting or two. It is intake-who’s the players and what are the issues. But Sullivan was not interested in counseling. He merely wanted to unload the decision out of habit. And if we do not shut them down now, they will be doing it to our kids in twenty years from now when they have little ones running around the house.

Second, just exactly where does the buck stop with our legal system? Police have to make an arrest. The prosecutor has to pursue the case. Judges now also walk a away without rendering a verdict, and passing the buck does not constitute a decision. Can those mental health counselors slide the decision over to someone else? Just where does this end? Who is responsible? Who is accountable?

The mental health crowd is the third reason I said no. Some people think they are geniuses with their Masters and PH D’s. Others think they are so wacky that they call them fruit loops. Well, I have a third name for them. Suckers. They did not get hired for their medical ability. They got these because they were willing to take these cases off the judge’s hands. Which has done nothing for the credibility for their profession. We are not here to help-we are here to unload. And they created a liability that did not previously existed. If a judge releases a defendant and he goes kills someone, that judge or the judiciary cannot be sued. But a mental health worker, and their employer certainly can be held liable. Our judiciary is now using the mental health field like a ten dollar whore.

I sued Monadnock Family Services to make them go away. I told their lawyer Byron that they were a legitimate target for men. We settled for no money. They would have nothing to do with this reconciliation. The counselor was released. And they would no longer get involved in any domestic violence cases.

Every time we ended back in court over whatever squabbles, I would ask Judge Sullivan for my children back. The decision belong to the counselors he would tell me. But he knew he had screwed up. I could see it in his face. But he would not fix it. He would not step out of that box those domestic violence/sexual assault advocates had built for him. After five years, he retired to a part time position at the Littleton courthouse 120 miles away.

So when guys like Alex Baldwin and I call judges cowards, we have legitimate reasons for doing so. It is not good for judges to be called coward. It is unlikely that it is good for the rest of us.

I do not claim to have all The Second Set of Book. I know of one book that I do not have. And I would have love to read that one. That would be the seminar that the domestic violence and sexual assault advocates put on periodically for legal personnel including judges. These advocates are camped outside every state, not federal, courthouse in America. The U.S. Dept of Justice provides 50-100% of their funding depending on the program. They have three day seminars at resorts where everything is paid for except the liquor. Judges in NH are ordered to attend. Neither Sullivan or Arnold would confirm or deny they had attended. They actually said nothing. It must be like the Masons where they will not say anything about the organization until you show them the secret hand sign.

Supreme Court Judge Louis Brandeis once wrote that the best description of a judge is the impartial guardian of the rule of law. How does three days of wine, women and song contribute to impartiality? It does not. So it should not have been any surprise that they would not answer me. After all, they were not on trial. I was. But they are going to be. They were suppose to protect to rule of law not collaborate in its demise. They have failed miserably.

A guardian ad litem is an attorney appointed for a child. The attorney solely represents the child. I got one when I was first separated to get a neutral pair of eyes and ears on the family. I was disappointed in his findings.

A few years later, another guardian was appointed for one of the kids. A regular report filed with the Court painted me as some sort violent psychopath. I thought that was uncalled for seeing as we had never met. It start a flurry of nasty letters between until we both came to the conclusion that this was not about us. We ended on a friendly note.

At a Court hearing later on I approached him. I asked him if he had had any domestic violence training. He said yes, that it was required to become certified as a guardian ad litem. Another chapter for The Second Set of Books that I never managed to acquire.. So men, if you were thinking about getting a guardian ad litem for an unbiased assessment, then you should ask for the domestic violence material that certified the guardian. And do not worry that you are not sure what you are looking for. It will stand right out.

There are more sections of The Second Set of Books. Medical personnel are supposed to report suspected domestic violence. The college professor Angela Davis has a story of a Latino couple in California getting in trouble feeding the dog his liver for dinner. Mental health employees are also required. Think of Wendy threatening our kids with foster care. Teachers, day care providers, the list just goes on and on. The East German secret police, the Stazi, had 25% of the population on record as informers. The United States is not that high yet, but we are still growing.

These people-police, prosecutors and judges-are suppose to protect us. They are checks and balances to prevent injustice. That is why we spend so much money of police training. But if the police screw it up, the prosecutor can catch it. If the prosecutor misses it then the judge can step in to fix it. But if all three have been compromised, then what does one need to do to get justice? Go to the appeals court or the Supreme Court? That seem a little ridiculous particularly when the zero tolerance has arrests for something as trivial as touching.

On one hand we have the law. On the other hand we have what we are really going to do-the policies, procedures and protocols. The rule of law is dead. Now we have 50 states with legal systems as good as any third world banana republic. Men are demonized and the women and children end up as suffering as well.

So boys, we need to start burning down police stations and courthouses. The Second Set of Books originated in Washington. But the dirty deeds are being carried out by our local police, prosecutors and judges. These are the people we pay good money to protect us and our families. And what do we get for our tax money? Collaborators who are no different than the Vichy of France or the Quislings of Norway during the Second World War. All because they go along to get along. They are an embarrassment, the whole lot of them. And they need to be held accountable. So burn them out.

In the last 25 years they have arrested one in six adults in this country and forced 25% of the men, women and children into homelessness. In 50 years it will be one in three adults arrested and 50% of the men, women and children ending up homeless. Most of our kids will live to the age of 68 years old. As bad as it was for you, your children will have twice the odds of it happening to them.

Some of you will say that 50% homelessness sounds absurd. But 25% is absurd and that is already here. There is no evidence that the police, courts, or government is planning to do anything different in the immediate future. And they will not do anything different until we make it so uncomfortable that they must change. Bureaucracy at its worst. So burn them out. This is too important to be using that touchy-feeling coaching that is so popular with business these days. You need to flatten them, like Wile E. Coyote. They need to be taught never to replace the rule of law. BURN-THEM-OUT!

Most of the police stations built in New England over the last 20 years are stone or brick. Fortunately, the roofs are still wood. The advantage of fire on the roof is that it is above the sprinklers. But even the sprinklers going off work to our advantage. There is no way they can work in a building with six inches of water. And I am certain we will disrupt their momentum once they start working out of a FEMA trailers. If they still do not get the message, then burn down the trailers.

The easiest way of burning a building is with the Molotov cocktail. It was invented by the Finns when the Soviets invaded in 1939. You fill a bottle with gasoline and stuff a rag in the end for a wick. You light the wick and throw bottle, It shatters on impact spraying gas everywhere and the wick ignites the gas. Simple, readily available, and effective. And only two things to remember.

First, use a glass bottle. Thinner glass is better than thicker glass. You want it to shatter on impact. When I was teaching a kid at the high school on the West Side Worcester, MA. threw a Molotov cocktail into his school. Fortunately, he used a plastic bottle. It burned about three square inches of carpeting. I had to laugh when I said to myself, “Thank God for dumb kids.”

Second, you need to tie the rag to the bottle. Nothing worse that throwing a Molotov cocktail, landing where you wanted it, and having it shatter perfectly. Then you noticed the wick had fallen out on the way to the target. No wick-no fire.

Some of these building will have brick faces and metal roofs. Just break a window and throw the Molotov cocktail inside. Carpets, furniture, computer plastic, even paint on the walls will burn. It is okay if the sprinkler goes off. I wonder if you can get hip waders over a gun belt?

We had a kid in my hometown that burned down the old junior high school. He walked up to the front door one night with a can of lighter fluid. The applicator on the end squirts the lighter fluid out. He squirted under the door and along the seams and lit a match. The kid took out the entire old part of the building. Why are kids so competent when it is something they should not be doing?

There will be some casualties in this war. Some killed, some wounded, some captured. Some of them will be theirs. Some of the casualties will be ours.

Now, nobody wants to get killed. But let us look at your life. You are broke after paying child support. She and the kids are not doing any better. None of you are middle class any more. You have no say in the kids education, their health treatment, you may not even have visitation with your sons and daughters. And everything you thought you knew to be true-the rule of law, the sanctity of the of the family, the belief that government was there to nurture your brood-all turned out to be a lie. Face it boys, we are no longer fathers. We are just piggy banks.

So you are not losing anything by picking up the Molotov cocktail. It may be too late for us. But without something changing, your kids will have double the odds of it happening to them. That will knock them out of the middle class again, providing they ever get back in. And their kids, your grandchildren, will end up damaged goods before it is over. So it is okay to run. You just need to turn around and run at them. They are no way as imposing as they seem. They only do what they do for a paycheck.

Television would make us believe that people get arrested because of fingerprints, DNA, facial recognition, and instruments that can tell where a substance was made and here is the local distributors. It is Hollywood crap. Most of the people in prison are there for one key reason. They could not keep their mouths shut. They told someone. That someone told others. The cops hear it and start looking at them for a suspect. That how it works in real life.

This need to confess seems to be primeval. Just human nature. But if you cannot keep a secret, do not expect the one you tell to keep their mouth shut. There is only three people I know for certain they will keep their mouths shut. That would be Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

I only managed to get the main door of the Cheshire County Courthouse in Keene, NH. I would appreciate it if some of you boys would finish the job for me. They harmed my children. The place is evil. So take it out

Some where along the line I picked up the crazy notion that it is better to be dead as a free man than to live as a serf. The government needs to be a little more careful about what they teach in our schools.

And bring a can of spray paint to these fires. Paint the word COLLABORATORS ( two L’s with an S on the end) on the building before you burn it. Maybe we can shame them back to the rule of law. And we do want the police to know exactly who burned the building. Then the police can start interviewing the usually suspects, all 36 million of us.

We have covered the do-bies. Now let us look at the bureaucrats that say-ers.

The Second Set of Books originated in Office of Violence Against Women (OVW) which is part of the United States Department of Justice. Some of these policies, procedures and protocol were developed locally. But the local results would be sent up to OVW and, if approved, would disperse it out to all 50 states. They are smart, clever, bigoted and able to lie as well as any politician that ever called Washington home. In other words, they have now become Washington insiders.

But what makes them so uniques is their anger towards men, any man. They are so twisted in their hatred of men that they are positively scary. And it is not what they are doing to men that makes them frightening. You would expect that. No, it is what they are doing to the women and children that makes them so twisted.

When the Pentagon drops a bomb on innocent civilians the military calls it Collateral Damage. It sounds better than, “Yeah, we killed a bunch of women and children.” Those poor, innocent, stupid civilians have always been caught in the middle since the time we were fighting with rocks.. Your wife and kids are Collateral Damage in the war against you, the man in the family. For 25 years these feminists at OVAW have been willing to sacrifice the women and children to get you. And they cannot claim ignorance about what they are doing. Under the VAWA the federal government is funding at least 1,800 homeless shelters. As long as the Office for Violence Against Women exists in the U.S. Department Justice , no American man, women or child will be safe in their own home.

If you ask these feminists why are the shelters all full, they will not say because of all the arrests. The shelters are full because of men. But they knew from the beginning that this was not man bad-woman good thing. The year was 1976. Two things would happen that year.

First, someone at the U.S. Dept of Justice decided to count the dead bodies. In 1975 there were 1522 women killed in domestic violence. And for men killed in 1975? The dead for men was 1506. Statistically equal a friend tells me so.

If you had asked me before the study, I would have assumed that women were getting the worst of it. But I would be looking at it by genders. What I should have been looking at was species, homo-sapiens, human beings. Men are human-women are human. Being the same species you would expect the same results from both genders. And that is exactly what the dead bodies told us.

The second thing that happened in 1976 was the first domestic violence survey was released. It was so new the time that they called it family violence. Murray Straus of UNH and Richard Gellars from a school in RI were the researchers. They did not find two perpetrators of domestic violence, but three. Men initiated violence 25.7% of the time: women 25.2%, and the other 49.1% was the two going after each at the same time. These two people going after each other at the same time is well recognized in law. The law in NH calls that mutual combat. Men are human. Women are human. And once again we found both genders acting the same manner.

So how did we end up with the theory of man bad-woman good that the government at all levels is using? The feminist writer Susan Brownmiller wrote In Our Time that,” the way you get funding and church donations is to talk about the pure victims. If you talk about the impurity of the victim, the sympathy vanishes.” If women get to be good then men get what is left-bad. Man bad-woman good was originally a funding raising technique. After 35 years, it has turned into official government dogma at all levels, from the local cop on the beat to the White House. Men need to be punished, restrained and retrained. Your wives and children are, unfortunately, just collateral damage in this effort to punish men. So you were not dreaming it. There really is a government pogrom against men.

When a man batters or kills, there is no excuse. When a woman commits the same act, there is nothing but excuses. Simple though inaccurate. But there is one redeeming aspect to men being demonized. Now we men can act like devils. And we do not even need to apologize for it. Men are going to start acting just like they made us out to be. As an old high school semi-punk I can assure you boys of one thing. This is going to be fun. You guys are going to end up laughing like hyenas.

The money funded under the VAWA is split in two when it leaves the Treasury. Part goes the Health and Human Services for fund these domestic violence homeless shelters. If that 36 million number is correct, and it is all that we have, then the 1.44 million arrests a year will be made producing 2.88 million homeless Americans each year. Women and children constitute 60% of these homeless people, 1.7 million Americans a year. Shutting down these shelters would be cruel. What would these women and children do then? Go live under a bridge. No, we are stuck with these shelters for a while. But there is one thing that Congress needs to fix when they fund them again.

These shelters do not allow men on the property let alone inside the residences. Why is it against the law to use federal money on organizations that discriminate against black, Jews, gays or even women but it is okay to do so against men? Men contributed half that tax money. Eight years ago a man in California fled with his children after the police warned him to get out after they had arrested the wife and mother. None of the shelters would take him and the kids in because he was a man. I wonder if this would survive a legal gender discrimination challenge in a federal court?

A society without men is freakier than a world without blacks or Jews. That is not to say blacks or Jews are any less worthy. It just that there are more men in the world than blacks or Jews even if you combined them. If these feminist had to deal with men on a regular basis, then maybe the country would not be in the pickle we are in now.

There is a third reason to end this discrimination, something of a more practical nature. Apparently, some women like to have sex with men. But men are barred from the property. Suddenly, that 15 year boy two doors down starts looking real good. It might even be fun breaking in this new meat. So this woman driven into insolvency by the push for domestic violence arrests now finds herself charged as a pedophile because someone barred men from her world. With domestic violence advocates as friends, who needs enemies.

This shelters came up with a novel approach to fixing the pedophile problem. Male children over the age of thirteen are barred from staying there. Too troublesome. The family broke up when the father was thrown out of the house. Now a second break up is happening with the teenage boys. Perhaps a relative has one bed available. Maybe the family of a high school friend would take him in their home. If neither option works then that is okay. He can move in with his father. Then they will both be sleeping in the car down by the river.

Children of these parents also suffer. They used to have their own bedroom in a safe town with good schools. First they have a shelter, then Section 8 public housing. An urban school. Maybe good-maybe not. Kids learn how to be tough in an urban environment. The kids might go bad or they could come out just fine. But there will be no clunky car as a teenager. There will be no saving fund for college. There will be no monetary gift to use as a down payment for a starter home. This tradition of the older generation giving the younger generation a financial leg up has been ruin due to the older generation’s lack of money. Financially, the older generation is merely treading water. It will take generations after these present two generations to repair the economic damage to these families.

So we are stuck with funding these shelters for a while. These women and children have no place left to go. Some of you guys may think that these feminist caused the problem and then created the solution. But homeless shelters are not a solution. They are just barely a band aid.

The remaining money under VAWA goes to the United States Department of Justice for the Office of Violence Against Women (OVW). As long as OVW exists then the government is at war with men. As long as there is a pogrom against men, then women and children are going to end up as collateral damage. So there is no need for discussion about OVW going. The only thing we need to figure out is which of the two ways we can use to get rid of them-the easy way or the hard way.

And boys, do not try to burn down Washington’s Dept. of Justice Building in an effort to get rid of the Office of Violence Against Women. Their offices are over at N Street.

The easy way is using Congress. The VAWA comes up for funding every five to seven years. Next time it comes up, Congress votes no and everyone at the OVW gets a pink slip in late September. Nice and simple except nothing is simple in Washington. We, the people out here in the sticks, do not always know what the dynamics are in Washington. There might be one method of getting Congress on course. Have Congress demand that the Attorney General get, and release the arrests figures. Or have the President order it. He is usually fearless after he makes up his mind. And this is too large and too well known to continue the Washington plausible deniable routine. Then they will know how much trouble they are in because of these arrests.

There are 220 million adults 18 or older in this country of both sexes. If my figure of 36 million is correct, then that is 16.4% of the adults have been arrested. It could be as high as 55 million or 25%. It might be as low as 22 million or 10%. Whatever the number there are two things that Congress should know. First, is the fellow who discovered the arrests in Minneapolis back in 1992 said do not use it because it does not work. And second, the people arrested now constitute a Fifth Column here in the United States. Our loyalty to Washington is gone. But what did these genuises on the Potomac expect? They have harmed our children. If they think Al Qaeda is a pain in the ass, wait to they see what Americans can do once their fuse is lit.

I am certain the Attorney General will sit for months on the request for the number of domestic violence arrests. Then he will explain that they do not readily have the number and that some sort of Manhattan Project effort will be needed in time and money. Nonsense. When Washington started these arrests in 1984 over 6.3 personal computers were sold here in the U.S. That figure does not include all the mini’s, midi’s and mainframe computers sold that year. There is no way they can pretend that this data does not exist in electronic storage. A request to Ohio for the arrests 1984-2010 would tie up a state clerk for an hour, including their 15 minute coffee break. Time for the truth boys and girls. Because this is not going away.

The hard way is more time consuming, cost more money and is full of headaches. Because the only way of removing a department from the federal government without the consent of Congress is to take out the entire federal government.

The first time I heard that, I said that is ridiculous. We cannot run this country without a federal government. But we will replace the old government with something new and improved. The new government would honor the debts incurred by the old government. There are a lot of useful reasons for starting with a clean slate.

The bipartisan debt commission released their recommendation for cleaning up the $14 trillion we have borrowed over the years. Convention wisdom has it that Congress has no stomach for any of the recommendations.

But a new government could install those recommendation on day one. Three years later, most Americans will not remember that anything is different. The old government laid off its employees when it closed. The new government is hiring. But instead of 65,000 employees at the Dept. of Education, the new government is only hiring 45,000. Instead of an average federal wage of $70,000 a year, the new average will be $52,000. The new government will have to write a tax code. Everyone pays 15% with no deductions. How many IRS employees could you get rid of if there were no more deductions? Any thing is possible with a new government.

Normally over-throwing a elected government is considered treason. Treason is punishable by death here in the United States. But there is one way of over throwing the government. That is through the ballot box. Then it is not treason but democracy. Allegedly, Washington is in favor of democracy, particularly if their candidate wins.

There is no legal mechanism in the Constitution or the Federal code of the United States for dissolving the government of the United States. So that is what we need first. Congress would need to write it. We get them to do it through the ballot initiative.

A ballot initiative is when enough registered voters sign a petition to get a question on the ballot for the next election. The following would be a sample of what the question would look like in New Hampshire.

That all elected representatives from the state of New Hampshire to both houses of the United States Congress are to propose and advance a bill that would set up a legal mechanism to dissolve the United States government should the people decide to do so in a general election by a simple majority.

If this initiative passes in all 50 states then Congress will be stuck. They will have to write the law to dissolve. If they do not I suspect within ten years they will be standing in a stairwell at the British or French embassy with a suitcase in hand waiting to get to a rooftop helicopter. I doubt if they will be thinking about the humiliation of being thrown out of the country. They will be far too busy worrying about what will happen if the mob gets their hands on them.

Washington has not got a friend in the world. Even the British and Israelis loath them now. Kind of a bad time to be losing domestic support. And what they done over the last 25 years? They have wiped out the middle class pandering to a special interest group of bigots. And in typical Washington fashion, they did not even know they did it.

This Ivy League inbreeding in Washington has produced an elite that knows what best. Everyone else-husbands, wives, police officers, prosecutors, judges, attorney generals and guardian ad litems-are to shut up and do what they are told. The rule of law is gone, replaced by the policies, procedures and protocols of The Second Set of Books. Which means the federal government will be going shortly. For the government being unable to deliver the rule of law is like an auto mechanic who claims he does not know how to change the engine oil. A certain minimum competency is required. So it looks like the parents of the Washington elite were right. One can be too smart for their own good.

Betty Friedan wrote that the feminist revolution, like any revolution, would have its excesses. Losing the rule of law is too great to call it a mere excess. It is a catastrophe. It is the heart, mind and soul between the people and their government. These feelings of betrayal by losing it may be permanent. I have 21 years of Army service going back to the Vietnam War. My loyalty to the government should be a given. It is gone. I am certain it will never return regardless of how long I might have lived.

It was another woman that lead us in to this decision to clean house inside the beltway. Something she taught us fifty years ago. You simply look at those folks in Washington and then ask yourself the old Ann Landers question, “Am I better off with them, or without them? Are my children better off with them, or without them?” They are sinking like stones.

Washington, DC was chose as the capital because it was the geographical center or the old Colonies. Today, the geographical center of the country is just west of St. Louis Missouri. The new government can set the capital anywhere in the United States it wants. Imagine how many rodents, insects and parasites they could lose by moving 1500 miles west.

Whether you replace the federal government or not, men are still going to need a legal defense center for men. Something like the NAACP used to get black people their rights. The only checks and balances in the Second Set of Books is the First Set of Books. Which means lawsuits. Now I know you guys are broke. Some of you have had your wives and kids thrown into homelessness. So I completely understand when you tell me that you are broke. But if everyone who has been arrested throws in $10.00 a year then the legal defense center will have a war chest of $360 million. You can buy a whole bunch of lawsuit with that kind of money.

The Ball family has been supplying sergeants to the Army since at least the Revolutionary War. Elijah served as a sergeant in Cushing’s Regiment at the Battle of Bennington. His commanding officer was a general from NH with a name of John Stark. General Start was a clever warrior. He was responsible for the bulk of the heavy casualties the British suffer at their victory at Bunker Hill. His orderly, fighting withdrawal allowed the other units on the hill to not only retreat but collect their wounded on the way out.

General Stark would repeat this performance on three hill tops outside the village of Bennington VT one hot August day in 1777. At the end of the battle, the British lost over 900 men killed or captured. The Colonists suffered 30 dead. Two months later, the depleted British army would surrender at Saratoga. That victory at Saratoga would bring the French into the war. John Stark was the most competent general this country ever produced. For that reason alone his men loved him.

But as brilliant as he was on the battlefield, General Stark would become even more famous for something he said. In 1809 the veterans of Bennington decided to have one last reunion. A delegation called on the General with his invitation. But the General was old and frail. He could not attend. But he did send a message, “You tell the boys I said live free or die. That death is not the worst of evil.” Since 1945 the State of New Hampshire has stamped Live Free or Die on every pen, coffee mug, license plate and highway sign that they have gotten their hands on.

I think the General and his sergeant would be please that his words have elevated from the novelties and bric-a-brac to something more dignified like a courthouse door. Neither of them would give a second thought to the mess left over after the fire was extinguished. War has always been a grim business. Civil wars are usually worse.

But they would be trouble by the new enemy. Oh, they understood when a government betrays it people. They took up arms against the super power of their day to get relief for their grievances. But the enemy we face now is the government that these men birthed at places like Bennington, Saratoga and Bunker Hill. Government is no different than the food in a refrigerator. Given enough time both will go bad.

The smartest person I knew in this life was my mother. Perhaps that is true of all of us. Maybe I just got lucky. She was a nurse by trade. She worked in a time when Western medicine made that final transition from butchery to science. But it would not be her nursing skills that made her extraordinary. No, it would be this one incredible knack she had that I had only modest success at mimicking in my life. If she had something important to say to you, she would say and then never mention it again. She would talk about it if you raised the issue. But she never mentioned it twice on her own. And, oddly, you always heard her.

But she did have one favorite saying. I must have heard in a thousand times in the eighteen years I lived under her roof. It always came at the end of the conversation as she peeled away to see if it was time for Perry Mason or Lawrence Welk. She would turn her head to the side, and over her shoulder she would say, “And the only thing you really have in this world is your family.” Now, thanks to the United States Government, neither we nor our children have that.

. I have three things to say to my children. First, Daddy loves you. Second, you are my three most favorite people in the world. And last, that you are to stick together no matter how old you get or how far apart you live. Because it is like Grandma always said. The only thing you really have in this world is your family.